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The Booker prize-shortlisted tale by Damon Galgut that's both truth and fictionhttps://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2010/sep/08/booker-prize-damon-galgut-truth-fiction
Since it's clearly based on autobiographical events, some have asked whether In a Strange Room is really a novel at all. But like all good fiction what it offers is writer's truth<p>It happens like this: when you come to the end of the first page of Damon Galgut's superlative novel, <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/interactive/2010/aug/02/strange-room-damon-galgut-booker" title="">In a Strange Room</a>, you read its final sentence twice.</p><p>Applying his brush ever so deftly – a stroke of intent in a painterly work whose canvas stretches over three continents – the author writes: "What the first man is wearing I don't know, I forget."</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2010/sep/08/booker-prize-damon-galgut-truth-fiction">Continue reading...</a>Damon GalgutBooksBooker prizeFictionCultureBooker prize 2010In a Strange RoomWed, 08 Sep 2010 08:50:41 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2010/sep/08/booker-prize-damon-galgut-truth-fictionPhotograph: Nigel MaisterBooker prize shortlistee Damon Galgut. Photograph: Nigel MaisterPhotograph: Nigel MaisterBooker prize shortlistee Damon Galgut. Photograph: Nigel MaisterBen Williams2010-09-08T08:50:41Z